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David Strassman took some time out from his recent ‘Careful What You Wish For’ tour to chat to e-Travel Blackboard about his love of travel.

e-Travel Blackboard: Thank you for welcoming us here at the Enmore Theatre, we’re looking forward to your show tonight!

David: It’s great to be here!

e-Travel Blackboard: You travel so extensively with your shows but when you get some time out, where is your favourite place to visit?

David: Funny you should ask, I was just showing pictures! I love the wilderness. I love the American desert but the Australian desert I think is my favourite. Alaska as well, the Alaska wilderness is just phenomenal!

One of my favourite places is 600kms north of Cairns on an island called Haggerstone Island. In the Great Barrier Reef, it’s “Gilligan’s Island” meets five star homemade resort. Everything is homemade, you even fish for your food! It’s just idyllic.

e-Travel Blackboard: So if you are comparing the Australian outback and the American outback, which would you prefer

David: I love them both equally because they’re just both so different, you can’t compare.

I just did a trip from Alice to Darwin through the gulf country and bush camped every night.

I’ve also been through Arizona and California which offers amazing country side but so different!

I just love the wilderness because it’s just such a great escape from this fast life of theatres and touring.

e-Travel Blackboard: Are you getting some time out this trip?

David: Nope just go, go, go and home for Christmas.

This trip is just Sydney and Adelaide and then I’ll be visiting Canberra, rural Victoria, Tassie and rural NSW next year

e-Travel Blackboard: Have you been to Tasmania before?

David: Many, many times! It’s an undiscovered gem, it really is, it’s great and a great party town too! 

e-Travel Blackboard: When you visit Australia, what is the first thing you do?

David: The first thing I do in Australia is go get a Laksa.

It’s so Australasia, well more Asian but look its more Australasian because in America I cannot find a Malaysian restaurant where they sell Laksa. I cannot find it anywhere in LA.

That would be the first I thing I do and then I’d get a Cascade although you can’t get Cascade in Darwin, I’m sure you probably could but I haven’t seen it in the bottle shops in the Northern Territory.

Or a Red Back Beer, I think that’s Western Australian…

e-Travel Blackboard: Do you like our Australian wines?

David: Yeah my favourite is South Australian Shiraz

e-Travel Blackboard: What would be a must see place for our readers heading to the outback?

David: I recently, last July, got in a helicopter in a place called Cape Crawford which is probably a couple of hundred kilometres east of the Stuart Highway, halfway between Alice and Darwin.

There’s this place called the “Lost City” and there’s something like 1.4 billion years old sandstone on every road and it has the most amazing spires and canyons. You can only get there by helicopter and it is phenomenal, so undiscovered, not many people know about it.

e-Travel Blackboard: So you are heading back home for Christmas but where to next?

David: I don’t know but I’m going home and my son has three weeks off for Christmas so I’m thinking of whisking him away some place like Hawaii or something

e-Travel Blackboard: Do you like cruising?

David: My sister did a Disney cruise with her kids and it was the most unbelievable experience and I was considering doing that with my son, he’s nine.